"Cathy Converse brings Frances Barkley's eight year global sea adventure to life. . .A compelling story of love, determination, and adventure."
-Stephen R. Brown, award-winning author of The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Company. |
"A rollocking true tale of love and the sea told without bravado by a most remarkable woman."
-R. Bruce Macdonald, author of Never Say P*g and Sisters of the Ice |
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The first book commemorating the remarkable life of Agnes Deans Cameron, British Columbia's first female principal, itinerant traveller, respected journalist, and one of the top 150 most significant individuals in the history of the province of BC
The year was 1908, and Agnes and Jessie were following the route of the early explorers and fur traders who travelled down the Athabasca and Mackenzie Rivers to the Arctic Ocean. In one short season, they would become the first European women to make the ten-thousand-mile journey down the Mackenzie River out to the Beaufort Sea and back.
Excerpted from Against the Current: The Remarkable Life of Agnes Deans Cameron (TouchWood Editions, 2018) |
Cathy Converse is a number-one, bestselling author with several books listed on the BC Bestseller List. She has been writing for over thirty years and has authored, co-authored, and co-edited seven books, numerous cover stories for magazines, articles for academic journals, and the occasional technical manual. Her fourth book, Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet, was honoured as one of the top five books chosen for the BC Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award in 2009 and Against the Current received an Honourable Mention for the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing. She is also the former chair of social sciences, was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology, and a founder of the women’s studies curriculum and ancillary programs at Camosun College. For her work in writing historical biography she has been named in Canadian Who’s Who.
Cathy was raised in the sunshine of California and Hawaii but has spent her adult years living along the craggy, windswept shores of British Columbia. Using the ocean as her anchor, she spent much of her time surfing, white-water kayaking, canoeing, and sailing the coastline from Panama to Alaska. |